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Paramount extending 'go shop' period by 15 days so it can review Bronfman offer 08/22/2024 11:31am • Shares of Entertainment giant Paramount Global are up Thursday after announcing it would extend by 15 days a period where it's allowed to assess competing offers to its merger agreement with Skydance. The company made the announcement late Wednesday after confirming that it had received an offer fr Europe offers clues for solving America's maternal mortality crisis 08/22/2024 11:10am • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� Midwife Jennie Joseph touched Husna Mixon���s pregnant belly, turned to the 7-year-old boy in the room with them and asked: ���Want to help me check the baby?��� With his small hand on hers, Joseph used a fetal monitor to find a heartbeat. ���I hear it!��� he said. A quick, st Italian aviation authorities investigate after turbulence injures two easyJet flight attendants 08/22/2024 10:49am • LONDON (AP) ��� Italian authorities have launched an investigation after two easyJet flight attendants were injured when their flight from Corfu to London���s Gatwick Airport was buffeted by turbulence earlier this week. As a result of the incident, the pilot made an unscheduled landing at Rome���s Hungary says it will provide free tickets to Brussels for migrants trying to enter the EU 08/22/2024 10:06am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) ��� Hungary's anti-immigration government is prepared to provide free one-way tickets to Brussels for migrants and asylum seekers attempting to enter the European Union, a minister said Thursday in response to hefty fines recently imposed on the country over its restrictive as Blackouts in extreme weather drive demand for cleaner backup power 08/22/2024 10:00am • Software engineer Kenna Ofoegbu in Houston, Texas tries hard to keep his three kids cool during the summer and that means air conditioning. Yet their house has lost power three times in just the past two and a half months. One of those outages lasted three days. That time, Ofoegbu and his wife deci Former New Hampshire lawmaker loses right to vote after moving out of his district 08/22/2024 10:00am • NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) ��� A former New Hampshire lawmaker has avoided jail time but lost his right to vote after moving out of his district, keeping his seat for a year and being charged with crimes related to his change of address. Troy Merner, 62, a Republican, pleaded guilty Wednesday to les Ukraine���s military foray into Russia is a high-risk venture for both 08/22/2024 09:32am • In a dramatic escalation of the war with Russia, Ukraine���s military has launched waves of drones at Moscow, destroyed three key bridges in the Kursk region, occupied more than 425 square miles of territory and taken thousands of Russian troops as prisoners of war. But while the two-week offensi Russian climbers reach hospital after rescue in Pakistani Himalayas 08/22/2024 09:18am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� Two Russian climbers who were injured on the slopes of one of northern Pakistan's highest mountains reached a hospital in the region on Thursday, a week after they were stranded after being hit by falling ice. The climbers were part of a five-member Russian team that was Feeling groggy in the afternoon? Here���s how to nap the right way 08/22/2024 09:02am • Now that she���s working from home, Kendra King takes an early afternoon nap on most days, typically for about 20 to 30 minutes. ���A lot of times, I don���t go in with the intention of taking a nap, but instead to lay down and rest,��� said King, a writer in Philadelphia. ���Then I end up drifting School choice and a history of segregation collide as one Florida county shutters its rural schools 08/22/2024 08:28am • MADISON, Fla. (AP) ��� Tens of thousands of students have left Florida���s public schools in recent years amid an explosive expansion in school choice. Now, districts large and small are grappling with the harsh financial realities of empty seats in aging classrooms. As some districts are being forc UK drug regulator approves Alzheimer's drug but government likely won't pay for it 08/22/2024 07:01am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s drug regulator authorized the Alzheimer���s drug Leqembi on Thursday, saying it's the first medicine to show some impact in slowing the progression of the neurodegenerative disease. But the U.K. government likely won���t be paying for it after an independent agency separ White, Donaldson, Greene lead West Virginia's potent rushing attack in new-look Big 12 08/22/2024 06:10am • West Virginia has its potent ground game back, and if reinforcements on a leaky defense help avoid some of the embarrassments from a year ago, the Mountaineers could make some noise in the Big 12 Conference this season. West Virginia finished third in the Bowl Subdivision at 229 yards on the ground Kennedy Center hosts Women's Equality Day concert honoring TV's Wonder Woman 08/22/2024 05:40am • The Democratic National Convention is set to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as the first Black and Asian American woman for president on Thursday, just days before Women's Equality Day on Monday. To mark the occasion, the nonprofit organization Take the Lead is celebrating its 10th ann When your child doesn't want to go to school: They might not be playing hooky. It could be 'school refusal' 08/22/2024 04:00am • "Get up. You���ll be late!��� It���s something many parents have probably said at least a few times as they try to get their kids ready to go to school. While some kids may negotiate five more minutes to snooze, some parents in the D.C. area have a more ���relentless and exhausting��� challenge when Missouri death row inmate agrees to new plea in deal that calls for a life sentence without parole 08/22/2024 12:59am • CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) ��� A Missouri death row inmate on Wednesday dropped his innocence claim and entered a new no-contest plea in an agreement that calls for a revised sentence of life in prison without parole. But the Missouri Attorney General's Office opposes the new consent judgment and will appeal